FS#42565 - [emacs] Please build Emacs with file notification support

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Alain Kalker (ackalker) - Sunday, 26 October 2014, 14:57 GMT
Last edited by Jürgen Hötzel (juergen) - Wednesday, 21 January 2015, 12:47 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jürgen Hötzel (juergen)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Quoting [1]: "Emacs can now be compiled with file notification support.
This happens by default if a suitable system library is found at
build time."

The current build of Emacs appears not to have been built with file notification support (it doesn't list any notification libraries as dependencies, and a quick check with `ldd /usr/bin/emacs` shows no linking with any).
Also, while I was editing a PKGBUILD for an svn package (thanks for the handy emacs-pkgbuild-mode btw :-) ), after building the package with makepkg, I did not receive any notification when makepkg updated $pkgver inside the PKGBUILD.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:

[1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/news/NEWS.24.4
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Closed by  Jürgen Hötzel (juergen)
Wednesday, 21 January 2015, 12:47 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Additional comments about closing:  (featurep 'gfilenotify) -> t

glib2 is already a indirect dependency of emacs

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